2016•Sexually Transmitted InfectionsRequires access

Exploring the experiences of medical students learning sexual history taking: a qualitative study

Julia Davies, Nicky Perry, Daniel Richardson

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BASHH, BHIVA, FSRH (formerly FFPRHC) and the British Infection Society ‘Core learning outcomes for medical undergraduates’ recommend that doctors entering foundation training should be able to undertake an appropriate sexual history.1 It has been recognised that the teaching of sexual history taking in medical schools is varied in quality across the UK.2 There is a paucity of literature evaluating how sexual history taking is taught to medical undergraduates. Following informed consent, we performed semistructured interviews with six fourth year medical students from Brighton & …

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Key concepts: Medicine, Sexual history, Qualitative research, Medical education, Family medicine, Sociology, Social science